Farmers’ Northern Market Company Collection, 1871-1953
Call Number: MG-49
2 boxes 39 folders 1 cubic ft.
Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7
Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 2
Scope and Content Note: Contains records starting with the purchase of land for construction of the Northern Market in Lancaster. Includes financial documents of stockholders, minutes, lease agreements, tax returns, ledger books, bank statements, and forms. Also, some personal papers of Menno B. Hess, a member of the Board of Directors.
Creator: Farmers’ Northern Market Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Conditions for Access: No restrictions.
Conditions Governing Reproductions: Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.
Language: English
Source of Acquisition: Unknown.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Preferred Citation: Farmers’ Northern Market Company Collection (MG-49), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.
Subject Headings:
Hess, Menno B.
Farmers’ Northern Market Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Farmers’ markets. (LHo-LOC sh 89003269)
Business records. (LHo-LOC sh 85018316)
Stockholders. (LHo-LOC sh 85128216)
Search Terms:
Business records
Correspondence
Farmers’ markets
Letters
Minutes
Farmers’ Northern Market Company
Northern Market
Stockholders
Manuscript groups
Finding aids
Processing History: Processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. This collection has been documented, preserved and managed according to professional museum and archives standards. The finding aid was updated using DACS conventions.
Box 1
Folder 1 By-laws, charter, purchase agreement, 1871, 1872, 1897.
Folder 2 Payment vouchers for building of market house, 1872-1873.
Folder 3 Bonds and promissory notes, 1872-1886.
Folder 4 Treasurer’s report, January 1873; December 1880.
Folder 5 Articles of agreement with contractor, 1884.
Folder 6 Board of Directors’ minutes extract for meeting, 1884,
Minutes, May 19, 1944, June 20, 1944.
Folder 7 Stockholders lists and correspondence, 1884-1958.
Folder 8 PA Capital Stock Tax Returns, 1872-1897.
Folder 9 PA Capital Stock Tax Returns, 1935-1942.
Folder 10 16 stall collections, weekly sheets, 3 yearly receipts, 1883, 1941, 1938-1949
1 small book of collections, 1893-1895.
Folder 11 11 receipts, 1880-1889.
Folder 12 10 receipts, 1933-1958.
Folder 13 29 dividend checks to shareholders, 1899-1906.
Folder 14 41 dividend checks to shareholders, 1922-1925.
Folder 15 64 dividend checks to shareholders, 1930-1932.
Folder 16 53 dividend checks to shareholders, 1935.
Folder 17 49 dividend checks to shareholders, 1946-1947.
Folder 18 Minutes of the stockholders meetings, Jan. 1934 to Dec. 1943.
Folder 19 5 Lease agreements, 1881, 1927, 1933, 1933, 1944.
Folder 20 2 Lease agreements, 1891, 1894.
Folder 21 2 Lease agreements, 1942, 1945.
Folder 22 Insurance policy, 1869.
Folder 23 Insurance policies, 1915-1958.
Box 2
Folder 24 Ledger Book: Stall Rent Collections, 1875-1887.
Folder 25 Ledger Book: Weather Reports, 1892-1896 (pages missing)
Stall Rents, 1922-1924.
Folder 26 Accounting register and sheets, 1932, 1935, 1948.
Folder 27 Northern National Bank statements and canceled checks, 1908, 1917-1918, 1920.
Folder 28 2 Northern National Bank deposit books, 1910-1923.
Folder 29 Checkbook stubs, 1925-1928.
Folder 30 Conestoga National Bank statement and canceled checks, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1949.
Folder 31 Articles of agreement, 1907.
Folder 32 Agreement in rough draft, 1910.
Folder 33 PA Corporate Loans Tax Returns, 1893, 1936-1942.
Folder 34 PA Corporate Income Tax Returns, 1939, 1940.
Folder 35 Employee and school taxes, 1938, 1951.
Folder 36 Correspondence on tax reports, 1938-1948.
Folder 37 Booklet: The Famed Markets of Lancaster, 1949.
Folder 38 Market House blank forms
Folder 39 Menno B. Hess personal papers, 1918-1953.